The widely circulated and aired Windhoek Lager advert featuring international actor Gerard Butler received backlash from South Africa’s Advertising Regulatory Board (ARB), which decided last week to ban the commercial for “promoting toxic masculinity”.
Nespresso has launched a Cape Town-inspired coffee as part of its new World Explorations range.
This is the deeply personal, and at times harrowing account, of what it has been like as a South African winemaker, producer and employer of 100s of desperate employees during the Covid-19 pandemic in a country that continues to ban the sale of any alcohol to devastating effect.
Vinpro wants the ban to be lifted with immediate effect by the court in its hearing on February 5.
As South Africa’s lockdown prohibition laws continue to cripple the liquor industry, the country’s leading producer, Distell, has turned to invest in the burgeoning CBD market.
SA Breweries, part of AB InBev, has cancelled a further R2.5-billion of investment earmarked for 2021 following a third local ban on alcohol sales in the country, it reports.
Three years after launching into its local market, the South African lower-calorie, lower-sugar soft drink brand, Pura Soda, is riding the right trend waves and is already available in 13 countries, including the US. This is a company to watch!
SA Breweries (SAB) is challenging the constitutionality of South Africa’s latest alcohol ban.
South African retailer Pick n Pay has announced its commitment to purchasing 25 million bottles of wine in 2021 to support the local wine industry.
The High Court of South Africa has interdicted and restrained the SA Breweries (SAB) from distributing, marketing or selling two Brutal Fruit Spritzer variants with non-compliant labelling and advertising.
The Duchess and Castle Free have joined together to offer conscious consumers an alcohol-free party-pack, dubbed "Brew & Botanical".
With ginger and its great health benefits trending in the age of Covid, SA premium juice company, Sir Fruit, has introduced a new variant, Gingerade+.
Nice, on-trend NPD from Chill Beverages - the launch of "Classics" and "Moments", new ranges of soft drinks and mocktails under its Fitch & Leedes brand that should find lots of takers with today's growing trend to 'nolow' drinking.
Heineken South Africa MD, Gerrit van Loo, was recently interviewed on The Money Show. He talks to Bruce Whitfield here on the brewer's continued investment in SA and surviving lockdown.
Distell's Bernini, the super-successul fizzy wine RTD range, has added a stylish new fourth variant in time for summer 2020: Amber.
Distell has introduced another Hunter’s variant, following its alcohol-free one that débuted earlier this year: introducing bold new Hunter’s Red Apple.
A Cape Town-based entrepreneur has launched a new premium water onto the SA market, unusually presented in cans. Here's Michelle Richardson's launch journey of Calm Natural Mineral Water...
On 31 October 2020, new SA coffee labelling regulations were published as part of ongoing regulatory efforts to enhance product transparency and prevent consumers from being misled.
Distell recently launched its fifth limited edition Three Ships Whisky Master’s Collection - a superb 11-year-old single malt with shiraz cask finish.
Chill Beverages has added a new variant to its Chateau Del Rei line up of bubbly wines in a can.